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shouldn't either. The Blog is written for enjoyment and if you don’t enjoy it – so what. I do. AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT I WRITE FEEL FREE TO GO ELSEWHERE! Oh, and one more thing. Comments are moderated. That is because I am not interested in promoting your web site or your religious or political views. I will not enter into a discussion on why you believe that everyone in the world is going to hell unless they accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior. If you want to
proselytize go elsewhere. This is not the place for it.
If you mean whiskey, the devil’s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean that evil drink that topples Christian men and women from the pinnacles of righteous and gracious living into the bottomless pits of degradation, shame, despair, helplessness, and hopelessness, then, my friend, I am opposed to it with every fibre of my being.
However, if by whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the elixir of life, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer, the stimulating sip that puts a little spring in the step of an elderly gentleman on a frosty morning; if you mean that drink that enables man to magnify his joy, and to forget life’s great tragedies and heartbreaks and sorrow; if you mean that drink the sale of which pours into Texas treasuries untold millions of dollars each year, that provides tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitifully aged and infirm, to build the finest highways, hospitals, universities, and community colleges in this nation, then, my friend, I am absolutely, unequivocally in favor of it.
This is my position, and as always, I refuse to be compromised on matters of principle.
–Noah S. ‘Soggy’ Sweat, Jr. 1952
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